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astro-ph2008★ 282 cited
Accretion onto the First Stellar Mass Black Holes
Marcelo A. Alvarez, John H. Wise, Tom Abel
The first stars in the universe, forming at redshifts z>15 in minihalos with masses of order 10^6 Msun, may leave behind black holes as their remnants. These objects could conceiva…
astro-ph2008★ 290 cited
Ionizing Photon Escape Fractions from High Redshift Dwarf Galaxies
John H. Wise, Renyue Cen
It has been argued that low-luminosity dwarf galaxies are the dominant source of ionizing radiation during cosmological reionization. The fraction of ionizing radiation that escape…
astro-ph2008
Resolving the Formation of Protogalaxies
John H. Wise
Cosmic structure originated from minute density perturbations in an almost homogeneous universe. The first stars are believed to be very massive and luminous, providing the first i…